What are the Causes of Economic Inequality in the U.S.

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What are the Causes of Economic Inequality in the U.S.

Compare and contrast Marx and Weber’s notion of class and class stratification.

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1. Compare and contrast Marx and Weber’s notion of class and class stratification.

2. Thinking about Max Weber’s three components of social class, answer the following two questions:

If you were forced to choose between Weber’s three components of social class, which component would you choose to have for the rest of your life: property, prestige, or power? Why?

How could you use that one component to gain the others?

What specific people and/or events most shaped your personality over the last fifteen years of your life?

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Make a list of your read our own personality traits and then address the following questions:

How much, if at all, has your personality changed from the time you were in elementary school?

What specific people and/or events most shaped your personality over the last fifteen years of your life?

In terms of personality, which parent are you most like—your mother or your father—and in what ways?

After you consider these questions, discuss how, if at all, your answers may help to shed light on the “nature” versus “nurture” debate.

Identify one of the news articles from the list below that you are interested in writing about.

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For this assignment, you will demonstrate your ability to apply your sociological imagination to better explain current events.

You can use your textbook and notes to help. This assignment will help you think more critically about the news and other media you consume on a daily basis, as well as to better understand and critique arguments using a sociological perspective.

Identify one of the news articles from the list below that you are interested in writing about. Then, in your written assignment ( 1 page, 12 pt. font, single spaced, with 1 inch margins on all sides) you will identify at least two sociological theories and/or concepts from our class materials and discuss how they can help better explain what is happening in the article.

You should not simply recite what an article says, but instead add some sociology in order to better explain what is happening around us.

Does inclusion as a practice in professional workplaces attempt to consider individuals culture or does it tend to bring them into the fold by integrating them into spaces that are traditionally white supremacist?

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The second part of the paper requires a study to be conducted of my choosing: Does inclusion as a practice in professional workplaces attempt to consider individuals culture or does it tend to bring them into the fold by integrating them into spaces that are traditionally white supremacist?

Explain the focus of the position paper and how it align swiththeul timategoal of the social advocacy group.

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Prisons as Mental Health Institutions

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
A. Provide a brief overview of the issue.

B.Explain the focus of the position paper and how it align swiththeul timategoal of the social advocacy group.

C. Briefly explain the evidence that will be used in the analysis of the issue.

D. Develop a statement that communicates the position of the social advocacy group.

E. Identify prevalent stereotypes regarding the issue.

F. Communicate a preliminary position on the crime and violence issues upported by findings from the analysis.

Discuss the importance of norms and values in society and what function they serve in society.

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Breaking the Norm
This project is designed to introduce the student to the norms of our everyday world and what it is like to disrupt these “expected ways of behavior”.

You are required to go out into the social world and break what is known as a folkway or a norm that is not strictly enforced.

You are then expected to write about your personal experience and the reactions you received from those around you.

Define and explain what values and norms are

Discuss the importance of norms and values in society and what function they
serve in society (in other words, what do values and norms do)

Explain how values and norms are different but related

What you seek to explore/examine in this paper by conducting your experiment

Describe what norm you broke and, if possible, what value/s this behavior challenges;

Describe how people responded (in other words, what were the positive or negative
sanctions received)

What do these differences imply about the social changes that have taken place in our society?

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List the norms, folkways, and mores from American society. Is it difficult to identify them? Why?

Discuss the importance of these in American culture. Do any of them seem silly, irrelevant, etc.? What would happen if someone “broke a norm” (not a law)? How would people respond? Why?

If your parents/grandparents were to make this list would it look the same/different? What do these differences imply about the social changes that have taken place in our society? Has cultural leveling influenced any of these changes?

Describe agent of sociology that has changed during your lifetime.

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Describe agent of sociology that has changed during your lifetime.

Identify at least two sociological theories and/or concepts from our class materials and discuss how they can help better explain what is happening in the article.

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Purpose: For this assignment you will demonstrate your ability to apply your sociological imagination to better explain current events.

You can use your textbook and notes to help. This assignment will help you think more critically about the news and other media you consume on a daily basis, as well as to better understand and critique arguments using a sociological perspective.

Task: Your task is to identify one of the news articles from the list below that you are interested in writing about.

Identify at least two sociological theories and/or concepts from our class materials and discuss how they can help better explain what is happening in the article.

You should not simply recite what an article says, but instead add some sociology in order to better explain what is happening around us.